INDUSTRY SEMINARS, PANELS, WORKSHOPS

BRADLEY WYNN- The founder and president of the Oklahoma Film Society and Real to Reel. "I created the Oklahoma Film Society as a way to help fellow Oklahoman's involved with Film. Independent Filmaking is important to the Oklahoma industry, but it is unable to stand on its own without the details and talent behind making a film. I encourage those who are seeking a part in film and even those doing film now, to strengthen your abilities by participating in Bare Bones."

FACILITATOR: INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING: Issues & Answers Panel

CO-FACILITATORS

(Oscar & ShironButterfly Ray) FILMMAKERS/SCREENWRITERS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:

OPEN topics of interest & relevance, a sharing, networking and 'shameless self-promotion' experience. All attendees are welcome.

ShIRON Butterfly is a multi-faceted personality who is constantly on the move. She uses her background in Early Childhood Development to manage and develop a variety of projects at the same time. Shiron has a Masters Degree from Pepperdine University which she proudly hangs in her bathroom. Shiron is the founder of Bare Bones International Independent and Script-2-Screen Film Festivals, and works on independent film productions with her husband/partner Oscar as Production Manager, Sound Engineer, Legal Advisor (no law degree yet) and about anything else that needs to be done. She recently directed her second short film project (A tribute to The Great Train Robbery) with her first being (The Coffee Shop Stud). She also is the Executive Director for The Darkwood Film Arts Institute, where she motivates, trains, writes, acts and polishes emerging talents of all types.

OSCAR RAY-Independent Producer/Filmmaker/Screenwriter

Author of "Secrets to Bare Bones MovieMaking" to be released in December. Founder of Darkwood Film Arts Institute, a non-profit educational support organization for independent screenwriters, actors and aspiring moviemakers. He has written over 200 movie treatments and has helped to launch the careers of many. Though his first love is writing and his second is directing, Oscar is better known as "superman", as he writes, directs, supervises movie crew, creates and manages movie budgets, prepares movie business plans, does his own stunts, makes props, creates special effects, makeup, costuming, and cooks too. He is a coach, a friend and a taskmaster who is committed to growing the Independent film industry in and around Oklahoma.

His current movie projects are a sci-fi feature (UNSUB:Subject of Unknown Origin) and a TV pilot (UPI: Unexplained Phenomena Investigators). Oscar also works as a writer-for-hire (November Rain) and a Director-For-Hire (Several Unamed Projects) and expect to have a very busy year.

FACILITATOR-ACTOR'S WORKSHOP/AUDITIONS

SCRIPT-2-SCREEN SEMINAR LEADER

Writer/Producer/Director

Award-winning SAM & JANET (PG, 90 min. Starring Gary Busey, Ryan Brown, Jennifer Ferguson) marks the first feature film for Rick Walker. He has two film projects in development for 2002-03.

Hes also produced two short films in the past year, including RADIO MAN with plans on turning it into a feature. The other short film, THE DEEP END recently won first runner-up at a film festival in Oklahoma City for Short Film of 2001.

Rick Walker is a veteran radio broadcaster, winning numerous awards including Billboard Magazine Radio Personality of the Year." In 2002, his show was named one of the Top Five Morning Shows in America by Radio and Records Magazine.

From Philadelphia to Houston to New Orleans, back to his home town of Oklahoma City, Walker has been waking up listeners with his highly-rated morning show for the past 23 years. He continues his passion of writing screenplays and directing films.

He currently resides in Oklahoma City, where his morning show has been # 1 for nine consecutive years.

An Entertainment Attorney who represents filmmakers and screenwriters across North America. He advises in legal matters from film financing all the way through to distribution. He is a partner in the Screenwriter Representation Firm of Burris-Hulett Literary Management and has his own production company Dolphin Bay Films.

FACILITATOR: PRODUCERS PANEL

Modeling Agency Director, Pageant Judge, Author, Publisher of national promotional directory and award winning photographer Hayden C. Hewes specializes in the discovering and development of talent potential.

While serving as Executive Director of Oklahoma Casting, he is currently on the staff at Francis Tuttle in Oklahoma City, offering a class in talent development.

Aside from a critical analysis of the industry, Mr. Hewes is well known for his honesty & integrity. His seminars across the United States have been described as simultaneously interesting and imaginative. A respected author of several books including "The Secret" To Modeling for both Professional and New Faces, published over 300 Articles, two of which served as the basis for films.

Considered a media icon, he has been the guest on over 1000 radio & television programs including Real People. Presented over 800 seminars and appeared and/or portrayed himself in several films released in the United States and Europe. Film credits include "State Fair", "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" "Moonlight" and "Shades".

Featured national on the FOX Network, and more recently on the NBC Nightly News, Extra, Looking Beyond, the A&E Network and taped a segment for Dateline. He co-hosted a popular weekly TV show in Oklahoma City, while his weekly radio show had an audience of over 1 million and his national column was read by over 12 million weekly. The publishers of Who's Who in America announced Mr. Hewe's inclusion in the 23rd Edition. Known as the "Starman", Hewes said "As far as helping someone's career, I am the catalyst, the rest is up to the talent".

MARIO AVILA -Producer, Director

Originally from West Los Angeles, Mario moved to the midwest to study film at the University of Oklahoma. Even though he lived right on the UCLA campus, he wanted to make his own films with his own vision. There are only 3-4 projects produced by UCLA each year, and if your isn't one of them, you end up spending $10,000 being a PA on someone else's films."

While still a Junior at OU, he signed a deal with Universal Pictures to direct a feature version of his student short film "You Bet Your Life".

Since joining the Director's Guild of America (DGA) in 1998. He has directed short films and music viceos for clients such as Universal Records, Sony Records, Jive Records and Sony Playstation. Mario is also the only Oklahoma-based Director Member of the Music Video Production Association.

In 2001, he was named one of America's Top 100 Producers by the national magazine A/V Producer Multimedia. Mario was also honored with the Bare Bones Film Festival Inependent Trailblazer Award for his breakthrough work in independent film.

Mario acted as Producer on the 10 minute short film "Choices" which we submitted to the Sundance Film Festival. Mario is currently in pre-production of a music video that he will produce and direct in San Diego, California next month.

TVLI JACOB

Writer/Director/Producer, born and raised in Oklahoma, Tvli has always maintained ties to his Native American roots. In school, he met Steve Judd, where they instantly became friends until Steve moved away. After graduating from high school, Steve and Tvli attended college together at Haskell Indian Nations University, where they worked on a few short scripts and short movies. After graduation, Tvli went to the Institute of American Indian Arts and then The Art Institute of Dallas.

He's worked on several documentaries, been published in several magazines and in "Moss Moon", a collection of Native American writers. He's a freelance videographer, editor, director and producer. He currently works for the nationally syndicated television show, "Cheaters" and is a freelance videographer. He has three movies entered into the Bare Bones Script-2-Screen Film Festival: FORTUNE COOKIE LOVE, THE DELIVERY, AMERICAN INDIAN GRAFITTI: THIS THING LIFE.

CAPTAIN ADAM SHEA CHAMBERS has been involved in film in and around the Tulsa area for about four years. He is proud to be an Auteur and is always in search of local talent for his varied and numerous projects. His first film, ADAM AND YVETTE, is an example of networking with like-minded individuals to achieve a common goal. Chambers does not believe in the Hollywood System.

His work is focused on a D.I.Y. community of people, sharing resources and talent to obtain results without the crutches of monetary issues. It is in this manner that ADAM AND YVETTE was created...for $11!

DANIEL J. CASEY-VANHOUT

DANIEL CASEY, a resident of Detroit Michigan, began work on his feature film, The Passage, in the summer of 2001.

Daniel works as a free-lance editor in the Metro-Detroit area, and his resume includes a wide variety of industrial film, and music videos.

His film, The Passage was created on a mere budget of $4,000, however, the talents used in the film are worth far more, resulting in what has been called:

A high speed, emotional thrill ride. Jessica Shaw, Real Detroit

A damn good movie The Passage is a class joint all around.
-Erin Pedelski, The Metro Times

All the hand-held camera swagger and gunplay youd expect from a crime drama in Detroit, with surprising depth that gives it an edge. - John Monaghan, The Detroit Free Press

After spending the fall and winter of 2003 touring film festivals
across the United States, Dan plans on beginning preproduction for his next project.

STEVE JARVIS

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 16, he moved to Los Angeles, where he still lives. After graduating from Loyola Marymount University with a M.A. in Communications, Steve began writing for various Filmation animated television series.

Steve wrote for the cult hit comic book series Kilgore; developed scripts for Kamin & Howell Entertainment with Dennis Devine, has written and/or produced ten independent features.

CHAIN OF SOULS is his first solo directing effort.

STEVEN JUDD (Choctaw/Kiowa) A resident of Oklahoma, Steve attended college at Haskell Indian Nations University, where he began his journey into filmmaking with the television production class and his first failed attempt at a short film. After graduation, he went on to the University of Oklahoma.

Hes worked as an actor, director, producer and writer in both television and film. Hes acted in short films, features, appeared nationally on television shows such as THE FBI FILES, AMERICAS MOST WANTED and a made for TV movie. He has also appeared in print ads, billboards and commercials for the FORD MOTOR COMPANY, TACO BELL and MACINTOSH computers. His last project was working on a DISNEY documentary/ companion piece to the movie HELDIGO that is due out in October on the Discovery Channel/ANIMAL PLANET. He's currently helping to develop a pilot episode with a well know Native American director and still working on several feature films for which he continues trying to find investors.

KIMBERLEY BLIQUEZ was born in San Gabriel, California. Although she grew up in Hawaii, she now calls Texas and California her home. Traveling all over the United States and Mexico, Bliquez has done extensive work in film, industrials, commercials, voice-overs and print work. Represented by Brebner Carreon, she is also president of her own production company, Northstar Pictures L.L.C. of Houston, Texas.

Her most recent work includes producing and acting in the independent films POV THE CAMERA EYE, and THE AUDITION. Bliquez has also appeared on VH1 and a U2 music video. Just returning from this years Sundance Film Festival, she has already been promoting the U.S. Distribution of FOREVER BROTHERS.

DARLA ENLOW

While attending school at Oklahoma State University...never in her wildest dreams did Darla ever think about becoming a movie maker. It has become a passion in her life, and from that passion the Next Monkey Production team was formed.

Next Monkey Productions consists of creative, technical and support people who are passionate about film making. The music score for NMP films is composed for individual projects.Next Monkey Productions has produced music video's, short films and feature films.

Next Monkey Productions has projects planned beyond their current projects, "Toe Tags" and "Branded".

We look forward to entertaining fans of noir films and horror movies for many years to come.

FACILITATOR: FILMMAKER'S ROUNDTABLE

STACY TAYLOR, an accomplished actor, model and journalist, got her start in the entertainment industry at just four years old. A painfully shy child, her mother put her in dance, acting and modeling classes to try and build her self-confidence. It was on stage that Taylor realized her dream of being a performer. She did her first regional commercial at five and was modeling around the country by her early teens. She worked with designers such as Oscar de la Renta, Donna Karan and Carolina Herrera.

At 19, Taylor retired from modeling full-time to attain her Broadcast Journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma. She worked as a news anchor, health reporter and producer for four years. Always true to her craft, Taylor worked as a journalist, not because of a desire to be on local news, but, for a more diverse demo reel. The experience with ad-lib, hosting and teleprompters has been invaluable. She is best known as the morning anchor at KWTV News9. Once her contract with KWTV expired, she went back to what she knows and loves.

Since forming Stacy Taylor Broadcasting two years ago, Stacy has been in over 140 local, regional and national commercials and infomercials. She has been in five films, several industrial videos and is producer and host of Real Estate Oklahoma and Homes Oklahoma Style. She is also thrilled to be working as an assistant producer on a new pilot for a national television series.

Taylors diverse ethnic background allows her to play a variety of parts. She is Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Irish. She also speaks Spanish which adds to her diversity. Taylor has extensive dance training including tap, jazz, salsa, merengue, tango, cha cha, waltz, fox trot, East Coast swing, Hawaiian and Tahitian. She also plays the piano.

Taylor is based in Oklahoma City where she lives with her two dogs, a Rottweiler and Alaskan Husky. She is represented by Magna Talent. Taylors office, which she shares with Oklahoma Casting, is located on Northwest Expressway in Oklahoma City.

PETER ZHMUTSKI is a graduate of Pittsburg State University with a Degree in Communication. Peter was involved in music, film and television in his native homeland of Kazahkstan, a former Republic of the USSR. He has been composing and producing his own music at concerts for years.

This is his first feature film, with two short films to his credit: FIGHTER'S STORY, which he wrote, directed, choreographed and acted in and KEEP IT ON DA LOW, which he directed while a student at PSU. His Production Company is PZ Productions. Peter has received numerous awards for his film work and musical compositions.

Debbie Tompkins had worked in the real estate, title, and mortgage industries for nearly 20 years when she felt the need for a career change.

In 1998, Debbie joined the Oklahoma Film Commission. Her dual functions were Locations Manager and Executive Assistant to the Director in the Tulsa office. From 2000 to 2003, her work for the state brought her to Oklahoma City and expanded to include that of both Office and Production manager under the guidance of the Film Commissions director, Dino Lalli.

In 2000, as providence would have it she married writer-producer-director and actor Paul S. Tompkins who returned to his home state after over 20 years working in the film business in Hollywood.

Paul and Debbies goal has been to produce motion pictures outside the mainstream Hollywood system. In 2003, they opened an office in downtown Oklahoma City for their company, CrazyFish Films, LLC. The company will develop, finance, produce, and distribute a unique genre of highly commercial movies based on Christian principles.

Her son has an MFA in screenwriting and is a professor of drama at Lee University in Tennessee. Debbie feels blessed to have her own personal film family and is looking forward to producing films here with them and the wonderful people of Oklahoma.

DAVID STAMPS has produced, directed, and scripted numerous motivational, informational, and instructional short movies for state, federal, tribal, and university clients for more than 14 years. Based at the University of Oklahoma, he has started a program called Vision Productions with the goal of offering continuing education to independent movie makers and others in the industry.

DAVID MONTRESE

University of Tulsa Film Studies

Cathy Coomer : A STORY OF FATE-The Making of A Movie Producer

My whole career in filmmaking, as short as it is, really came on by accident. Rather, I should say fate. My background is in television and promotion. I got my B.A. in Communication in 1982 and several months after getting my degree, I had a full-time job at KOAM-TV in Pittsburg, KS/Joplin, MO as a reporter. I found out, however, that I was much better behind the camera than in front of and within a few years, was trained to produce the news. My timing was good; I actually got to work with Brian Williams, news anchor of MSNBC News. He had come to this area after an invitation by KOAMs general manager and worked in the SE Kansas/SW Missouri market for a little over a year, but during that time, he assisted me in the training of becoming a news producer. Within a short time, I was the 6 & 10pm news producer, which I ended up doing both at KOAM-TV and KY3 in Springfield, MO. After returning from Springfield, I transferred to the production department and wrote and produced commercials for 3-4 years. I ended my tenure at KOAM-TV after becoming the Promotions & Programming assistant and eventually as department manager. I always said during my employment at KOAM-TV. I learned how to promote a news story, a 30-second commercial and eventually an entire TV station. During the next few years, while still in my new management position, I decided, as if I wasnt busy enough, to go back to school and finish my Masters. I had taken 15 hours almost 6 years ago but still had 15 or so more to go. I took one class per semester and although it almost killed me, I graduated with an M.A. in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Public Relations in 1992. It was also during that time that I came up with the slogan that I still use quite frequently today

I can do anything, as long as I know it is temporary.

In 1996, I left KOAM-TV and was hired at Pittsburg State University to work with the acting Director of Broadcasting and assist with the overall improvement of the universitys cable TV station (my first fate experiencethank god I finished my Masters). Within a few months, the director left and I took over not only doing what I was initially hired to do but also teach his classes, run a broadcasting lab and oversee the taping of all PSU sporting events. I held that position for several more years until I reapplied for the same position but as a tenure status.

I was re-hired and worked at PSU for 7 years until leaving this past May. I worked very hard to not only improve the look of CAPS 13, but also assisted in establishing a sports broadcasting scholarship program, creating four new teaching curriculums which were added to the broadcasting sequence and maintaining 4 part-time positions for student lab assistants and 1 student engineer.

It was during that time that I met Peter Zhmutski. He had graduated from Ft. Scott Community College and transferred to PSU in the Communication department. One of my faculty members, Ann Andaloro, had taught Peter in a class and was very impressed with him. She introduced me and I quickly saw what she was talking about. He LIVED in the broadcasting labworking day and night on his video editing projects. He loved creating and took it very seriously. The following semesters, I had the opportunity to teach Peter in several of my classes. He took everything he could get his hands on that enabled him to use the equipment; he truly thrived on becoming better and better. Two summers ago, Peter asked me if I would be interested in working with him on a movie short that he was doing as part of a graduate student project as well as something he could enter in competitions. I agreed mainly because it was something I had never done before and he was going to be implementing the green screen effect in one of his fight scenes (Fate experience #2). My responsibilities began first as a producer and second in assisting him with recruiting extras, finding and setting up props, etc. I also became the main videographer. We worked very hard and within one and a half months, the project was complete. I enjoyed working with Peter and because we spent so much time together, I became known as Peters promoter. We were even approached to work with a non-profit organization in planning and scheduling a formal music night out during Pittsburgs Labor Day weekend or what it is referred to as Little Balkan Days. The event was called Spend an evening with Peter Z and was highly promoted in the area.

It was during the final days before the concert, that I fell and tore my Achilles tendon and had to have surgery. Even though the surgery went well, another accident occurred that would change my life forever (fate experience #3).

My pipes under my sink burst in the middle of the night and without thinking, I got my cast wet and within a few weeks, had developed a critical infection that almost caused me to lose my foot. Two more surgeries followed and one skin graph that held me up for the rest of the year. It was also during that time that Peter asked me to start reading a script that he was in the process of writing called Forever Brothers. I would read 10-12 pages a night and became so interested in the characters and the storyline that I asked if I could help him further after my leg was well. Sometime later I was told that he planned to produce this independent film and was working with two other major players, Darkwood Motion Pictures of Muskogee, OK and Dolphin Bay Films in Tulsa, OK. As shooting began and plans to audition the actresses and schedule a weeklong shoot in Tulsa began, I became more and more involved. I saw how I was quickly able to transfer what I knew in television and apply it to film and pre-production. I have always been a very detailed person and this was going to come in handy. Others apparently saw it too, because my role(s) in this movie quickly grew and before I knew it, I was a producer not only investing personally in the movie but also recruiting others to do so. I approached Peter with the idea of assisting in Tulsa as part of a continuing education practice with the university and was approved to go. Beginning in Tulsa and continuing throughout the production of the movie, I wore a variety of hats serving as UPM, Script Supervisor, Props and Publicist. The publicity part was the easiest for me; I already had many years experience in promoting. It doesnt really matter what the object or project is as long as you know who your target audience is and how to reach them. I focused on a number of things in getting the word out: localism, community tie-ins, actors background or heritage (a Russian making a movie about the Russian mafia) and the fact that all of our main actresses were from Texas.

Our weeklong shoot in Tulsa was incredible. We probably only had 10-15 hours of sleep that entire week but what was created during that time was something special. I learned so much that week that I knew, I would never be the same and I only wanted to do more and more in the film industry (fate experience #4). My new friendships with the actors, the crew and my peers opened up so many doors for me and I learned, a lot through trial and error, what this world was like.

I still have so much more to learn and have dealt with a lot of situations that werent always pleasant, but I have survived and am very excited about seeing the premiere of our movie FOREVER BROTHERS.

Peter asked me to consider being a partner in his company, PZ Production, and working with him on future projects, whether they be his or not. I agreed and am very pleased with our first real project. As to what the future holds, I do not have a crystal ball but I can say, with all honesty, that this has been very demanding but also very meaningful. I have tried all my life to finish everything I begin and this has been an incredible experience. Peter is one of the most talented individuals I have ever met and I feel fortunate to have been a part of this project; the other actors and crew are also very gifted and I know I will always have a special place for each of them in my heart. I would like to continue in some capacity but am not sure what the future holds. I have been approached to get involved in another film being scheduled to shoot in Tulsa as well as another on the east coast. I have also had discussions with two of my actors I worked with on FOREVER BROTHERS about other movies in the works. After seven years, I chose to leave Pittsburg State University and follow a new dream.working in the film industry. At 44 years of age, many would be afraid to risk giving up a great, well-paid position to branch out into the unknownbut I believe in fate and do not ignore the signs and something told me three times to consider these new options. Since I left teaching in May, I have also had the opportunity to travel like never before. For a Midwest girl who has never left the country before, in just 3 short months, I had the opportunity to travel to London, England; Moscow; Almaty, Kazakhstan and Los Angeles, CA all because of FOREVER BROTHERS.

I believe in dreams and am not afraid to take risks. I have sold my house, moved out of town and am now working in marketing for a local company while the movie is completed. What happens next? STAY TUNED.but be assured, whatever road I choose, I am going to have a great story to tell about it.